FLY 92.3 and Cold Stone Creamery serving free ice cream

I’m an ice cream fanatic, as most of you know. In fact, I listed a certain ice cream sundae as my absolute favorite dessert in Sunday’s column.

Thing is, ice cream is expensive. Or, should I say, good ice cream (you can get crappy Hersey’s or Perry’s for cheap). So, when that super creamy, extra rich ice cream is free, I like it even more.

That’s the case tomorrow over at Cold Stone Creamery in Stuyvesant Plaza (remember when I scooped over there for charity?). FLY 92.3-FM will be serving up free ice cream for exactly 92 minutes on Wednesday, beginning at noon and ending at 1:32 p.m.

Patrons during the 92-minute promotion will receive a small ice cream, any flavor, with one mix-in

Cold Stone Creamery offers a variety of ice cream creations along with shakes, cakes and smoothies and uses its signature process of preparing customers’ dessert on a frozen granite stone.

CupcakeQueen, OK. I didn’t say that was fact, it’s just my opinion. I happen to prefer premium ice creams like Ben & Jerry’s or Brusters and do not care for Perry’s or Hershey’s — they aren’t as creamy, lack flavor and are more “icy.”

Nice, thanks! Speaking of good ice cream, ever tried Scoups on Albany-Shaker Rd., near the Crossings? It’s my favorite. The hard ice cream is homemade and it’s very reasonably priced. (I’m an ice cream fanatic myself. I’m trying all the ice cream places in the Capital District and I’m almost done. Scoups is the best. I’m telling everyone so they stay in business forever.)

My freezer is never without ice cream in a few different flavors. As my friends and family know, i’m an ice cream lover and IMO, Stewarts has the best ice cream around. Not sure what I’d do without Stewarts Ice Cream. My 12 yr old son might have now surpassed me in loving ice cream. He’s just addicted.

I will never “get” the Stewart’s ice cream appeal. I mean, I love Stewart’s as a company (and love talking with Flavor on Facebook), but their ice cream is just … meh. There is a reason it’s so inexpensive — they use more basic (less rich) ingredients.

Stewart’s ice cream is seriously fantastic. I love their black raspberry (it’s my favorite out of any I’ve ever tried), and their different chocolate flavors (fudge brownie, peanut butter cup – I don’t know names, I just know flavors) always have me drooling.

And to CupcakeQueen, store brand is often just as good as brand name. Price Chopper’s store brand is great, and their Central Market brand has a heavenly 7-kind-of-chocolate ice cream (I think it’s called For Love of Chocolate or something like that). I get hungry just thinking about it!